Today in movie history February 16

1933 Legendary producer David O. Selznik became the new vice president of MGM on this day. Selznik had previously worked at MGM--where he met and married Louis B. Mayer's daughter, Irene--but he ventured out on his own to produce at Paramount and RKO, before starting his own production company. Prior to arriving back at MGM, Selznik had already procured the rights to "Gone with the Wind" (1939), for an unheard of $50,000, and had agreed to let MGM distribute the Civil War epic in exchange for loaning him Clark Gable.